AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE SECOND ANNUAL REUNION OF THE BOND FAMILY, BY ITS PRESIDENT, H.S. BOND, AT TURNER, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1938.
The father of the “clan” came with most of his family in a wagon train which started from the vicinity of Knoxville Iowa on Tuesday, April 12th, 1853, and arrived in the Willamette Valley Wednesday, Sept., 21st of the same year; five months and nine days having elapsed between the beginning and the ending of the pilgrimage. Most of the wagons were drawn by oxen. That journey may not have been so eventful as were some others of Oregon Pioneers, nevertheless, our ancestors encountered obstacles and endured hardships which sorely tried their metal and the manner in which they overcame and endured, entitle them to have their names enrolled among the heroes of the “covered wagon days.”
Grandfather Bond located in Clackamas county and occasionally preached for the Clackamas river about six miles north of Oregon City.